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IL House Passes ‘Junk Fee’ Bill The Illinois House passed a bill ( HB 228 ) that would amend the state’s Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to prohibit businesses from...
Anthropic Not Releasing New AI Model to Public The artificial intelligence company Anthropic—recently in the headlines for demanding that the Pentagon agree to certain limitations on the use of...
CT Lawmakers Target AI in Employment A bill (SB 435) before Connecticut’s legislature would require employers to disclose to job applicants when they are communicating with artificial intelligence...
On March 11, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed HB 2303 . The law, which takes effect June 11, bars employers from requesting, requiring or coercing workers or job applicants to accept a subcutaneous...
ND Regulators Approve Bank-to-Bank Stablecoin Use North Dakota’s Industrial Commission approved the use of the state bank’s planned stablecoin, the Roughrider Coin, for bank-to-bank transactions...
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed SB 205, the most sweeping artificial intelligence legislation in the country so far. In a letter to lawmakers, the governor said he was signing the measure in the hope of furthering the national conversation about AI regulation but that he was doing so “with reservations,” and he called on lawmakers to “significantly improve” on the law before it goes into effect in 2026. (PLURIBUS NEWS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Vermont’s Democrat-led legislature passed one of the nation’s strongest data privacy bills (HB 121), which would prohibit companies from selling sensitive data like financial and health information and allow consumers to bring civil lawsuits against violators. But Gov. Phil Scott (R) is concerned about how part of the measure could impact small businesses and his spokesperson said he would make a decision about whether or not to sign the bill after he’s reviewed the final version passed by lawmakers. (ASSOCIATED PRESS, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
The OpenAI team tasked only a year ago with evaluating the long-term risks of artificial intelligence has been dissolved by the company. The news followed the departure of the team’s leaders, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, from the company. Leike wrote that the company’s “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.” (CNBC)
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